
Text -- Psalms 14:6 (NET)




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Wesley -> Psa 14:6
Wesley: Psa 14:6 - -- This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by faith in God's promise and providence.
This was the ground of their contempt, that he lived by faith in God's promise and providence.
JFB -> Psa 14:4-6; Psa 14:4-6
JFB: Psa 14:4-6 - -- Their conduct evinces indifference rather than ignorance of God; for when He appears in judgment, they are stricken with great fear.
Their conduct evinces indifference rather than ignorance of God; for when He appears in judgment, they are stricken with great fear.

JFB: Psa 14:4-6 - -- To express their beastly fury (Pro 30:14; Hab 3:14). To "call on the Lord" is to worship Him.
Clarke -> Psa 14:6
Clarke: Psa 14:6 - -- Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - Instead of תבישו tabishu , "Ye have shamed,"Bishop Horsley proposes to read תבישם tabishem , an...
Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor - Instead of
Calvin -> Psa 14:6
Calvin: Psa 14:6 - -- 6.Ye deride the counsel of the poor He inveighs against those giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly expecting, in their dis...
6.Ye deride the counsel of the poor He inveighs against those giants who mock at the faithful for their simplicity, in calmly expecting, in their distresses, that God will show himself to be their deliverer. And, certainly, nothing seems more irrational to the flesh than to betake ourselves to God when yet he does not relieve us from our calamities; and the reason is, because the flesh judges of God only according to what it presently beholds of his grace. Whenever, therefore, unbelievers see the children of God overwhelmed with calamities, they reproach them for their groundless confidence, as it appears to them to be, and with sarcastic jeers laugh at the assured hope with which they rely upon God, from whom, notwithstanding, they receive no sensible aid. David, therefore, defies and derides this insolence of the wicked, and threatens that their mockery of the poor and the wretched, and their charging them with folly in depending upon the protection of God, and not sinking under their calamities, will be the cause of their destruction. At the same time, he teaches them that there is no resolution to which we can come which is better advised than the resolution to depend upon God, and that to repose on his salvation, and on the assistance which he hath promised us, even although we may be surrounded with calamities, is the highest wisdom.
TSK -> Psa 14:6
TSK: Psa 14:6 - -- Ye : Psa 3:2, Psa 4:2, Psa 22:7, Psa 22:8, Psa 42:10; Neh 4:2-4; Isa 37:10, Isa 37:11; Eze 35:10; Dan 3:15; Mat 27:40-43
Lord : Psa 9:9; Heb 6:18

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Barnes -> Psa 14:6
Barnes: Psa 14:6 - -- Ye have shamed - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in c...
Ye have shamed - The address here is made directly to the wicked themselves, to show them the baseness of their own conduct, and, perhaps, in connection with the previous verse, to show them what occasion they had for fear. The idea in the verse seems to be, that as God was the protector of the "poor"who had come to him for "refuge,"and as they had "shamed the counsel of the poor"who had done this, they had real occasion for alarm. The phrase "ye have shamed"seems to mean that they had "despised"it, or had treated it with derision, that is, they had laughed at, or had mocked the purpose of the poor in putting their trust in Yahweh.
The counsel - The purpose, the plan, the act - of the poor; that is, in putting their trust in the Lord. They had derided this as vain and foolish, since they maintained that there was no God Psa 14:1. They therefore regarded such an act as mere illusion.
The poor - The righteous, considered as poor, or as afflicted. The word here rendered "poor"-
Because the Lord is his refuge - He has made the Lord his refuge. In his poverty, affliction, and trouble, he has come to God, and put his trust in him. This source of comfort, the doctrine of the wicked - that there "was no God"- tended to destroy. Atheism cuts off every hope of man, and leaves the wretched to despair. It would put out the last light that gleams on the earth, and cover the world with total and eternal night.
Poole -> Psa 14:6
Poole: Psa 14:6 - -- Shamed i.e. desired and endeavoured to bring it to shame, or disappoint it. Compare Psa 6:10 . Or, ye have reproached or derided it, as a foolish t...
Shamed i.e. desired and endeavoured to bring it to shame, or disappoint it. Compare Psa 6:10 . Or, ye have reproached or derided it, as a foolish thing.
The counsel of the poor i.e. the cause which he hath taken to defend himself, which is not by lying, and, flattery, and violence, and all manner of wickedness, which is your counsel and usual practice, but by trusting in God, and keeping his way, and calling upon his name.
Because this was the ground of their contempt and scorn, that he lived by faith in God’ s promise and providence. Or, but , as in the foregoing verse. So there seems to be an elegant and fit opposition. You reproach them, but God will own and protect them, and justify their counsel which you deride.
Gill -> Psa 14:6
Gill: Psa 14:6 - -- You have shamed the counsel of the poor,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of this w...
You have shamed the counsel of the poor,.... The poor saints, the Lord's people, the generation of the righteous, who are generally the poor of this world; poor in spirit, and an afflicted people: and the counsel of them intends not the counsel which they give to others, but the counsel which they receive from the Lord, from the Spirit of counsel, which rests upon them, and with which they are guided; and this is to trust in the Lord, and to make him their refuge; and which is good advice, the best of counsel. Happy and safe are they that take it! But this is derided by wicked and ungodly men; they mock at the poor saints for it, and endeavour to shame them out of it; but hope makes not ashamed; see Psa 22:7;
because the Lord is his refuge: he betakes himself to him when all others fail; and finds him to be a refuge from the storm of impending calamities, and from all enemies.

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 14:1-7
TSK Synopsis: Psa 14:1-7 - --1 David describes a natural man.4 He convinces the wicked by the light of their conscience.7 He glories in the salvation of God.
MHCC -> Psa 14:1-7
MHCC: Psa 14:1-7 - --The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. The sinner here described is an atheist, one that saith there is no Judge or Governor of the world, ...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 14:4-7
Matthew Henry: Psa 14:4-7 - -- In these verses the psalmist endeavours, I. To convince sinners of the evil and danger of the way they are in, how secure soever they are in that wa...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 14:6
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 14:6 - --
The psalmist himself meets the oppressed full of joyous confidence, by reason of the self-manifestation of God in judgment, of which he is now becom...
Constable -> Psa 14:1-7; Psa 14:4-6
Constable: Psa 14:1-7 - --Psalm 14
This psalm and Psalm 53 are almost identical.
The failures of human bei...
